Bounds on the Buffer Occupancy Probability with Self-Similar Input Traffic.

High-quality traffic measurements indicate that actual traffic behavior over high-speed networks shows self-similar features. These include an analysis of hundreds of millions of observed packets on several Ethernet LANs, and an analysis of a few million observed frame data by variable bit rate (VBR) video services. In these studies, packet traffic appears to be statistically self-similar. Self-similar traffic is characterized by "burstiness" across an extremely wide range of time scales. This behavior of aggregate Ethernet traffic is very different from conventional traffic models. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]